CODEPATH.ORG • EMERGING ENGINEERS SUMMIT 2024
CodePath Wins GOLD for People's Choice Virtual Event of the Year—Two Years in a Row, with Record-Breaking Results (incl. 6X leads)
Virtual Tech Career Summit Case Study
Virtual Event Production | Platform Optimization | Sponsor Enablement | Technical Support
Live Attendees (108% increase YoY)
Sponsor NPS Score (Perfect)
Virtual Booth Visits
Qualified leads (6X increase YoY)
Award-Winning Excellence
People's Choice Virtual Event of the Year, Again!
The Eventex People's Choice Award is one of the event industry's highest honors. Together with CodePath, we helped create an experience that beat Google and hundreds of other companies for this award in in 2023... and won Gold again in 2024 —confirming what the results already showed: this collaboration set a new standard for virtual events.
The Challenge
The Emerging Engineers Summit serves as the largest and most diverse event dedicated to Gen Z tech talent in the United States.
After a successful, award-winning virtual event in 2023, CodePath wanted to scale this impact even further to for 2024 to more attendees and sponsors, while maintaining the authentic connections that made the previous event valuable.
Our Award-Winning Solution
For the 2024 summit, we assisted CodePath in creating a digital experience full of immersive elements:
- Dynamic environments that mirrored organic in-person networking
- Interactive booths where Fortune companies held livestream broadcasts and chats with potential job applicants
- One-click digital business card exchange system for immediate connections
- Concurrent breakout sessions with rich engagement and high level keynotes with premium production
Together, we didn’t just invite participation; we helped CodePath incentivize it through clever gamification that rewarded meaningful interactions, driving chat activity up significantly and generating thousands of emoji reactions during sessions and booth in activity between.
And knowing that familiarity is the foundation of confidence, we supported their partnership with Microsoft for pre-event platform onboarding, helping to demolish technical barriers before they could form and prime participants for authentic, valuable connections throughout the summit experience.
Our collaboration not only helped CodePath achieve exceptional results in the event and for their sponsors, but generated thousands of hot leads for their paid services, and was recognized internationally, winning the coveted Eventex 2024 People’s Choice Virtual Event of the Year Award for the second year in a row!
“I think it’s really critical to have a supportive production partner that can illuminate things you didn’t even think about in planning, coordinate all of the backend, and really support making sure our presenters are prepared to rock and roll. The We & Goliath team provided that high level of guidance for our company partners, engaging across the event and providing end-to-end support. With our perfect 100 NPS from sponsors and over 4,600 live attendees, we’re really excited to continue expanding the event both virtually and in-person.”
Geneva Scott
Senior Director of the Career Center at CodePath
How We Helped
01Dynamic Event Design
02Interactive Booth Technology
03Engagement Gamification
04Pre-Event Activation
Dynamic Event Design
We assisted in crafting an immersive environment with premium produced keynotes, concurrent live workshops, and targeted networking spaces, allowing participants to create personalized journeys through the event. This collaborative structure mirrored the organic networking of in-person events while leveraging the scale advantages of virtual gatherings.
Interactive Booth Technology
Together, we transformed the virtual booth experience, moving beyond static information displays to create dynamic engagement hubs. We helped enable company representatives to conduct live broadcasts, host real-time Q&A sessions, and exchange virtual business cards with interested students through our one-click system.
Engagement Gamification
We supported CodePath's points-based participation system that rewarded meaningful interactions rather than passive attendance. Students earned recognition for asking questions, participating in discussions, and connecting with sponsors – helping drive a 56% increase in chat activity and an astounding 53,163 emoji reactions during sessions.
Pre-Event Activation
As their behind-the-scenes partner, we helped organize a pre-event webinar with Microsoft to familiarize attendees with the platform before the main event. This strategic onboarding reduced technical barriers and primed participants for meaningful interactions.
Exclusive Event Platform Discounts
We & Goliath added extra value to the Codepath Summit. As part of this groundbreaking collaboration, we offered a 40% discount on a leading event platform, contributing to the summit's overall success.
Virtual Event Platform Optimization
We helped transform their event platform into a fully customized experience optimized for their specific needs.
Guiding the vision for the platform, we configured features including dynamic leaderboards that showcased active participants, virtual networking options, company booths, a comprehensive attendee guide that streamlined navigation, and per-session calls to action that drove specific engagement goals.
Together, we supported CodePath in empowering students to self-lead small-group virtual networking and company representatives to facilitate live Q&A sessions, creating a genuine community feel that resonated with both students and sponsors.
This collaborative, peer-led approach created a dynamic environment that felt authentic rather than corporate, resulting in significantly higher engagement metrics across all interaction points.
The results speak for themselves: Top-performing booths like Amazon Web Services (1,451 leads), Microsoft (1,342 leads), and Netflix Emerging Talent (1,261 leads) demonstrated the power of the optimized approach, generating unprecedented connection opportunities for both students and sponsors.
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